Sherwood Family Nonsense

This month, Sophia turned nine.  Since my parents were in town (and the weather forecast called for rain), we decided to play tourist for h...

Tajikistan is not a country that is on very many people's bucket lists.  Maybe not on anybody's bucket list, or at least not the lis...

Last week I got an email from Brandon.  "Looks like we're going to get the time off this summer.  Make sure to say your thanks in y...

Sometimes I get a little grumpy on Mother's Day.  This morning was one of those days.  My parents are in town and we've been partyin...

This week Eleanor turned three.  I'm a little sad about that because three is the beginning of attitude in my children and I'd actua...

It's almost May, which means that it's one of my least/most favorite times of the year: time to plan summer leave.  Summer is a tric...

This Saturday we went hiking.  It's been over six months since we have been out adventuring because, as it turns out, I didn't much...

I am feeling really good.  On Wednesday I washed laundry, ran almost three miles, schooled four children, had a Russian class, baked six loa...

I just tucked Eleanor into bed.  It has been a long Sunday today; we hosted church followed by a group dinner for twenty people.  Everyone h...

At five am last Saturday morning we finally stumbled in to our house, shooed the children out of the toy room, put them to bed, and fell int...